Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-01-26

neeO Vaccination TO geG VacC1natoQ.
"Ruddygore," Gilbert and Sullivans new
opera, seems to have been at its first per-
formance the other night what the English
would call bloody failure.
In England it is proposed to impose a tax
of e5 year upon all foreigners working in
that country. This tax would, it is believed,
fall principally Germans, and would
bring in a revenue of .95, 200, 900 per annum.
During the last few days thers ha We been
accounts of the physical and men tai failure
of the once eminent physicians who have
used too much cocaine on themselves.
And yet we have been sole mnly assured
that there is no such thing cocaine hab-
it.
A bill has been introduced at Albany pro-
viding that no fish less than six inches in
length shall be caught. This is about as re-
markable bill as the one introduced in the
Connecticut legislature forbidding fishing
through the ice in the summer months on
certain ponds.
The United Labor party in Philadelphia
has nominated full city ticket Its head,
came to this country in 1862 as a shoemaker,
spent two years in New York city and in
1854 went to Philadelphia and has lived
there since, working at his trade. From 1854
to 1866 he had charge of cooperative fac
tory, and from April, 1875. to June, 1876, he
had charge of the ''labor column of the
Record.
ctif nhaai in int OF N,
rip? A Vienna tailor wage1ed recently that
there were more than 10000. To decide the
question coat was ordered, and committee
of experts sat to superintend the work, as
we'll as to see that no unnecessary stitches
were made. The result was announced as
follows: Body of the coat, 4,7S0 stitches;
collar, 5,063; sewing collar on, 1,765; but
tonholes, $3.50; sleeves, with lining, $50;
pockets, 924; silk lining of body, with wad-
ded interior, 1853; braiding, 2,726; total,
39,619 stitches.
striking illustration of the growth of the
iron industry in Birmingham, Alabama, is
furnished by the experience of New York
merchant and his wife, especially the wife.
He invested $1S, 900 some time ago in one of
the iron and coal ventures of Birmingham.
He had no sooner parted with his money
than he was seized with profound disgust
at the weakness that had permitted him to
risk his money in a hole in the ground down
South. So he gave the wildcat investment
to his wife. She has since drawn $2O, 900
month in dividends on it.
The Arizona legislature passed two years
ago a test oath law, devised for the disfran-
chisement of all members of the Mormon
church in that territory. Governor Zulick
recommended in his recent message that this
law should be repealed GA man may be an
advocate of bigamy or polygamy, or belong
to the church that SO believes, +" said he, ''but
until he puts forth his belief into practice he
has offended no law. Legislation should
control actions, not opinions" This struck
the present lawmakers as good sense, and the
law has been repealed.
In Russia there exists religious sect call
ed Perevreshtehentzy(A Anabaptists), the mem
bers of which regard any medical treatment
as great sin, and accordingly keep all cases
of disease occurring in their midst as far as
possible secret from medical men. Every
proselyte is first of all bap tized anew; i'm 9th
er words, he is obliged to take bath either
| in river or in big tub filed with cold
water. The procedure is carried out without
any regard to the proselyte's health and
strength. DR.. Nikolsky saw cases in which
patients suffering from typhus fever, after
admission into the Sect were at once duly
bathed in a river in April, and died two OF
three days later in consequence.